Author: John MorleyPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Life of Richard Cobden
Author: John MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Life of Richard Cobden
Author: John MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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The life of Richard Cobden
Author: John Morley (visct.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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England, Ireland, and America
Author: Richard CobdenPublisher:
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Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold
Author: Michel ChevalierPublisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Richard Cobden, Independent Radical
Author: Nicholas C. EdsallPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
On Richard Cobden's death, Charles Francis Adams noted in his diary that Cobden "had fought his way to fame and honor by the single force of his character. He had nothing to give. No wealth, no honors, no preferment. He first taught the multitude by precept and example that the right of government was not really to the few, but to the many." Disraeli was no less acute when he remarked that Cobden was "the greatest political character that the pure middle class of this country has yet produced." In this biography Nicholas Edsall demonstrates how Cobden dominated middle-class radicalism from its high-water mark in the turbulent 1840s to the quieter years immediately before the emergence of the Gladstonian Liberal party in the 1860s. Cobden headed the movement for the incorporation of his adopted city, Manchester; he was the leader of the most successful of Victorian mass agitations, the Anti-Corn Law League, and chief adviser to the movement for the repeal of newspaper taxes; he was a founder of the mid-nineteenth-century peace movement and a vocal opponent of the Crimean War; he was the chief English negotiator of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860; and he was one of the earliest critics of the modern arms race. This is the first full-length biography since the publication of the official life more than a century ago. Not only has a good deal of new material become available, but the passage of time has served to underscore Cobden's significance both as a spokesman for the middle class in an era of acute class conflict and as a critic of the aims of great-power diplomacy at a time when his own country was the greatest of powers.
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
Author: John BrightPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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In Memoriam. The Life and Labours of Richard Cobden ... to which is Appended an Account of the Funeral, Etc
Author: A. T. SCOTTIn memoriam. Richard Cobden, his life and times
Author: Richard CobdenLincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Allen C. GuelzoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199743746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. If Lincoln was famous for reading aloud from joke books, Guelzo shows that he also plunged deeply into the mainstream of nineteenth-century liberal democratic thought. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy--equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The book sets these problems and Lincoln's responses against the larger world of American and trans-Atlantic liberal democracy in the 19th century, comparing Lincoln not just to Andrew Jackson or John Calhoun, but to British thinkers such as Richard Cobden, Jeremy Bentham, and John Bright, and to French observers Alexis de Tocqueville and François Guizot. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction--"the pursuit of happiness"--remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Abraham Lincoln was a man who, according to his friend and biographer William Henry Herndon, "lived in the mind." Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln--Lincoln the man of ideas--providing new insights into one of the giants of American history. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.